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ReviewDrug discovery today2021

Potential SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors.

Riddhidev Banerjee, Lalith Perera, L M Viranga Tillekeratne

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Review in Drug discovery today, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 86 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
86citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

86 citing papers in PubMed, 183 citations in OpenAlex.

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26 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Riddhidev BanerjeeDepartment of Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA.
Lalith PereraLaboratory of Genome Integrity and Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA. Electronic address: lalith.perera@nih.gov.
L M Viranga TillekeratneDepartment of Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA. Electronic address: ltillek@utnet.utoledo.edu.
University of Toledo · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Macromolecular ModelingZICES043010 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI COPELAND, WILLIAM · 2012 to 2025
$5.7M
MACROMOLECULAR MODELING AND CARCINOGENESISZ01ES043010 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI DARDEN, THOMAS A · 1986 to 2008
$1.2M
Novel Small Molecule Ferroptotic Compounds to Target Mesenchymal Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Stem CellsR15CA213185 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO · PI TILLEKERATNE, VIRANGA · 2018 to 2018
$449k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 ES043010NCI NIH HHS R15 CA213185
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has prompted an urgent need for new treatment strategies. No target-specific drugs are currently available for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), but new drug candidates targeting the viral replication cycle are being explored. A prime target of drug-discovery efforts is the SARS-CoV-2 main protease (M

Indexed as

Coronavirus 3C ProteasesCOVID-19 Drug TreatmentSARS-CoV-2Drug DesignDrug DiscoveryHumansVirus ReplicationCoronavirus 3C Proteases

Identifiers

PMID33309533
PMCPMC7724992
OpenAlexW3113166651

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Registered trials

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